Current Issue of The Friday Times

July 30 - August 05, 2010 - Vol. XXII, No. 24

 

 

Najam Sethi's Editorial

Watch out for the General-2
Two months ago, we analyzed the developing political situation in Pakistan and editorialized (“Watch out for the General!”) on the role of COAS General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani in months to come. Last week, as predicted, General Kayani got an unprecedented three
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Diary of a Social Butterfly



Such Gup



Nuggets


Letters

 

 

 

 

Comments / Analysis / Report

       
 
   

Executive decision
Hasan Askari Rizvi

Army's need for ownership of military operations has created an interdependence between civilian and military leadership

       
   

Kayani holds the cards
Imtiaz Gul

Has the Obama administration succeeded in managing all the key players in Pakistan's ruling matrix? Are Asif Zardari, Premier Gilani, Gen Kayani are all happy because they all can coexist until 2013 under international guarantees?

       
   

Strategic and (then) real!
Ejaz Haider

Strategic is not about discussing a range of issues, especially when in the shadows lurks one issue that can walk into the room and eclipse everything else

       
   

The “do more” mantra
Shaukat Piracha

Admiral Mullen asked for action against LeT; Richard Holbrooke sought cooperation against the Haqqani group for peace in Afghanistan; and Clinton emphasised that Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar hiding in Pakistan

       
   

Return of Richard Holbrooke
Saeed Naqvi

The six hour long donors' moot in Kabul was a way for the delusional participants to reassure the world that their efforts on Afghanistan might bear fruit

 
       
   

Interpreting the extension
Khaled Ahmed

Those who want Kayani to retire and not take the extension are rightfully purist about how the country should run under democracy while the 'realists' who want him retained for another three years are also right; hence the heated debate

       
   

Pakistan: A catalyst for regional trade?
Safiya Aftab

Analyses the potential benefits of ATT and questions the conventional wisdom of Pakistani bureaucrats, analysts and economists

       
   

Af-Pak Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA)
SG

 
   

Unpacking ‘Punjabi Taliban’
In Part IV of this series, Muhammad Amir Rana expl

A recently released report, quoting intelligence sources, claims that around 17 banned terrorist organizations are operating in the Punjab, but independent sources claim that there are more then 37 groups operating as Punjabi Taliban

       
   

What the critics say
Sher Ali Khan

       
   

Internal and external pressure
Mubasher Bukhari

Extension for a full term of Gen Kayani's term by top echelons of the PPP was made under internal and external pressure and is still a mystery in civil and military circles

       
 
   

Damned be him who cries “Hold, enough!”
Iqbal Geoffrey’s

unexpurgated column on goings-on in the hallowed halls
of justice

Features

       
 
       
   

Haunted by its departed rivers
Pakistan’s Sikh community faces a daunting future, says Shireen Mehdi

       
 
       
   

Confused and clueless
Zia Ahmad

views a supposedly iconic film through critical glasses

       
 
       
   

From Delhi to Abottabad
Mani Shankar Aiyar

writes about his recent visit to Pakistan

       
 
       
   

Saints who ruled India
Raza Rumi

reviews a new book on Sufism in the subcontinent

       
 
       
   

I am still at a loss
Taimur Khilji

We first need to address the conflict within us, before we begin to understand reasons why it persists outside, says

       
       
   

Shanghai noon
Faisal Kapadia

visits China for the experience of a lifetime

       
       
   

‘I Am Wind, You are Fire’
Noor Jehan Mecklai

writes of the inspired work of Fahim Hamid Ali

       
       
   

Every man a special artist
Murad Khan Mumtaz

In Part Two of this series, artist Murad Khan Mumtaz speaks of the divine of miniature painting

       
       
   

Colours of Swat
Zubair Torwali

speaks out from the beleaguered valley

     

 

 

 

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